A little girl Elaina Redding died May 21, and I knew nothing about it until just now. She had swallowed a button battery, and even though her parents took her to the hospital and they took it out within about 10 hours of the toddler swallowing it, it was too late. Less than three weeks later, a coughing fit caused her to rupture her damaged esophagus and she bled to death.
The same thing happened to Hazel, but she was lucky. Hazel had the battery in her throat for six days, but she survived.
Please, please keep your batteries, any kind of battery, out of reach of your kids and pets. Lock them up if you have to. Don't put them in small trashcans that are easily raided.
Let's not allow any more senseless deaths from something so preventable darken our world.
Please keep the Redding family in your thoughts and prayers.
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